Building Your Team

Before you groan, "woe is me," ask yourself, "how can this situation help me?"

It was both energizing and exhausting speaking with best-selling author, energizing speaker, and effective business leader, Tory Johnson - exhausting in a good way.

While some percentage of our capacity for gratitude may be inborn, much of it can be developed.

Naturally retailers want us to hit the virtual mall from out desks.

In reading my colleague Barry Moltz' post Don't Pick All My Brains, it caused me to squirm - because of the description of the phrase -- and then to want to rant a...

The concept of inviting people may seem simple on the surface--identify who you want on your team and invite them to join. However, it’s not only important who you as--it matters how you...

This is a small business visibility story I witnessed with my own eyes. After all my comments in the last few months about being disappointed with some small business owners, entrepreneurs and managers...

Saturday is Small Business Saturday - a time to support those small businesses that we all talk about, but may not always get to. I'd like to encourage you to GO and patronize...

Today Leslie has an outlet for her inexhaustible pool of ideas and loves the freedom to work from wherever she is. This could be from her NYC apartment (preferably in her PJs) or...

Credit checks are one of the tools small business owners can use to screen prospective job applicants. But legal and ethical questions surrounding the use of credit reports for job screening mean that...

Why and how gratitude can make you a happier person.

If we begin to treat unions as our partners in protecting our valuable workforce, it will be much easier to pursue a goal common to both labor and management: keeping workers safe and...

Employers may be skipping some paid holidays and Thanksgiving goodies to bank some cash for the holiday party.

Sales not showing up as planned? Does your pipeline show a flatline? One tip I mentioned in the last post, Sales & Revenues Don't Grow on Trees, was about increasing your prospecting activity....

Need a money tree to build business? When my son was small and I said we couldn't buy something because of the cost, he would suggest that I "just go to the cash...

The flip side of emotional intelligence -- and why it's not so great.

If we begin to treat unions as our partners in protecting our valuable workforce, it will be much easier to pursue a goal common to both labor and management: keeping workers safe and...

I have to chime in with the naysayers and agree that a 10 percent across the board increase is not the best retention strategy.

Tips from Blogworld - Blogworld, the largest social media conference in the world - was last month, in a busy time of year, and yet I am still thinking about the many presentations...